Tuesday October 13, 2009-Shopping Trip to Fort Erie

I woke up to rain sprinkles on the roof. It was cloudy and chilly but we're nice and warm inside. My back is sore but I can move without a problem today. Since it was only light rain, I decided to head out for my walk but I stuck close to the RV.

Here is our site (thanks to Gordon for the photo)

I eat breakfast every morning while on the computer so I decided to sign up for the free wifi here. You're allowed four hours then you're off for ten hours. The four hours starts when you sign on and ends four hours later regardless of whether you're on your computer for the whole time or not. It's fairly fast now that most people have left the campground. Kind of looks like a ghost town here today, but that's pretty much what we like. There is another choice of 30 minutes every 2 hours and you can use that within your 10 hour waiting period for the other wifi.

This morning we went out and got our propane tank filled. We had run out the last night at Tranquil Acres and there are some cold nights forecast coming up.

After an early lunch we drove in to Fort Erie and went down by the Niagara River for these photos of Buffalo, NY. We also updated the roaming on our Verizon phones while we were there.

The Peace Bridge that runs between Fort Erie and Buffalo

Buffalo Skyline


There was a little area that jutted out into the river that was pretty.




I got some groceries, checked out the laundromat $2.50 to wash! On our way home we stopped at the laundromat here at the park. It's $2 to wash and $2 to dry. Still pretty expensive! Maybe I'll check out the little town west of us, Port Colborne.

After unpacking groceries, I lay down to read and had a little nap......

Day 4 at Sherkston Shores

These days every morning when I bundle up for my walk I remind myself of those little kids that parents bundle up in their snowsuits so much that if they fall down they can't get up, kind of like a turtle on its back. Sure hope I don't fall down! It was cloudy again this morning but I did have a sunny peep or two. Here is a photo of the sun shining on the white birch.


I needed to pick up some groceries and other stuff in preparation for crossing the border so today we drove to Welland, Ontario which is about 18 miles or so away from the RV park. Welland is famous for the Welland Ship Canal and here is a photo of us preparing to drive under the canal. The Welland Canal was built to get ships around Niagara Falls.


Welland is also a fair size city at 51,000 people. One of the purposes of today's trip was to see if we could get a flu shot at the walk in clinic but the vaccine isn't available yet and they aren't starting flu shots till November 8th so we'll have to get ours in the U.S. and pay $50.00 for them instead of getting them here for free. Bummer!

We got our business taken care of in Welland so came back to Port Colborne, ON where the Welland Canal begins coming from Lake Erie. We were lucky enough to see a Canadian ship going through the canal (photo below).

Here is a map that I took off Wikipedia showing the canal path.


Today turned out to be a beautiful day with a high of 16C (60F) so after unpacking the groceries I took a short walk around the park. It was just gorgeous in the sun. Tomorrow is supposed to be another nice day to prepare us for the rain forecast for Saturday.

Feels like time for a nap.......